Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-01-26
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ing AZ the OTlguL lllt4o JLuucllc- "uO
was unusually brilliant IL an evening
dress of scarlet tissue, with white
feather flowers looping the overskirt
and clusters Of the same in the heavy,
iat'v braids Of her lustrOuS hair.
II might as well have good time
while l can. Aunt Mary" Nettie said,
twisting herself round before the long
mirror. 10 admire her bright skirts and
ber tiny, slippered feet "Only two
more weeks here and then must go
back TO Wheaton and bury myself"
"Nettle."
There, auntie, don't look so
shocked! l know you think my future
husband IS perfection, and, between
ourselves. 50 do |. But, after all,
country parsons wife cannot expect
much gavety, and l mean to crowd all
lean into these last two weeks of lib
eTtE.n
"Where are YOU going tonight"
TO Mrs. Hunts. Mr.. and Mrs.
REYNOLDS VIII call for me and Count
LOiOskI."
Again Aunt Mary's voice was
stem, and there was an unusual seTe
rlty in her blue eyes. "Gou know how
strongly disapprove of your accepting
the escort Of Count LOdOskI."
But be is not my escort said the
peUe-se Nettie. Mr.. aud GTs. Rey-
mods will call in their carriage. /
don't believe in the count any more
than you do, auntie; and all his patne-
tic walls over his dear Poland fall upon
most unbelieving ears when sounded 10
NE. Notwithstanding he is most en-
teTt2ining company, dresses perfectly,
is handsome as an Adonis, and waltzes
Ike dancing master. So, because he
amuses NE | allow him 20 be my escort
during tie absence of the Rev Alfred
Martin, who VIII hold me soon fast and
firm in the chains Of matrimony. Hark!
The carriage IS here. Good night!
Don't sit Up for me,''
And wrapping herself in alarge cloak
Of softest white cashmere, Nettie kissed
her aunt, and sped with dancing feet
from the room.
In the carriage she found the young
couple who had offered her the spare
seat there, and she found, also, the
Polish Count, who was the last society
Ion in the society Of B, and who
Was decidedly attracted by the witching
beauty OF the gay brunette. Whether
il had been whispered IN his ear that
Sc was heiTess to Wheaton and s.. 900 a
year can only be conjectured; but he
was most devoted adOTer, and Nettie
careleSSly encouraged his attentions.
She had inherited Wheaton from her
grandfather when she was little child,
and her father being dead, her mother
had shared the guardianship of the little
heiress with her Uncle Joshua, so that
summer al Wheaton was followed each
year by winter in the city, where
school-days were succeeded by all the
pleasures Of society after Nettie passed
her 18th year. 1t must be confessed
mat the bright little beauty was pet
Ted, spoiled child "a willful girl, whose
lie had been one long sunshine, with
sVeTy whIm INDUCED, every caprice
grat.fed.
Serious thoughts had found little
place in her giddy head and pleasure
loving heart, TIL the Rev. Alfred Mar
IN accepted call to the village of
AOItOn, near which wheaton was Sit
uateo. lie was not a handsome man,
not a fascinating man in any sense that
Nette had ever thought of the word,
ouI ne had one gift that embraces many
O1AeTs IN a truly Christian minister-he
was earnest. To him the vocation of
us NE was one that absorbed heart and
oIdll, TO the exclusion of all effort TO
oe attractive Ia society or win worldly
pIalSe' Yet the very sincerity of this
man, tully ten years her senior, proved
Gnarm Nettie could not resist.
rom the careless ease of her petted
me ms sermons, like trumpet calls,
touSed her to a sense of the responsible
ny resting upon her as a woman hold
Iig IN her hands the gifts of perfect
sodiIb, energy and wealth Like a
butterfly, she has tasted sweets here
snu There, thinking but little of the
!r DiIVer Guys given to the less fortunate,
III the earnest appeals of the new
pleacher stirred her to considering the
stewardship intrusted to her care.
cue had no thought of pleasing the
minister - when she took up a share of
Ine parish duty, sewed for The Dorcas
anu .I visited the sick and poor. AdRira-
sIoh ano attention had been offered her
zoo ireely for her to dream of counting
mem but, impulsive IN everything, she
ouIew the whole force of her ardent,
.eIous nature into the new path of
tu.y Mr. Martins eloquence had poin-
led out to er.
laFge proportion of her income was
S,aEs aMn from a large cotton factory in
NoiCoh, and among the operatives there
ne''.e soon found employment for leis-
lars. "'0nue' ioi SpaIo uoi'
c.Io ~ was in the spring that Mr.. Martin
cor.o cue 70 Morton, and in the summer a
tI,rgus tInoagious fever broke out in the set.
'nleuS - nI Where the mill operatives dwelt
naS - sl1al tenement-houses. 1t was im-
Ioe pOssIole 1or Net.ie to enter into any
onS understanding with lukewarm interest.
sms sms, once engaged in trying to aid the
ielS, 1si.b she devoted time and money
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